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Latin
Etymology
Possibly borrowed from Gaulish *brokkos, from Proto-Celtic *brokkos (“badger”).[1][2][3]
Pronunciation
Noun
broccus m (genitive broccī); second declension
- A person having projecting teeth, a buck-toothed person
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Derived terms
Adjective
broccus (feminine brocca, neuter broccum); first/second-declension adjective
- having projecting teeth, buck-toothed
c. 2C. BC,
Plautus,
Sitellitergus (very short fragment):
- Bea mihi insignitos pueros pariat postea aut varum aut valgum aut compernem aut paetum aut brocchum filium.
- Well, remarkable boys she'd bear me after that, maybe a bow-legged, or knock-kneed, or thunder-thighed, or squint-eyed or buck-toothed kid.
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- ^ Walde, Alois, Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1938) “broccus”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition, volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 116
- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*brokko-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 80
- ^ “broche”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.